The New Asian City and Aspirational Modernity
Lecture
This talk is divided into two parts. In the first, I discuss my 2011 book, The New Asian City: Three-dimensional Fictions of Space and Urban Form, which combines a spatial history of three urban sites—Seoul, Taipei and Singapore— with the perspectives that literature, poetry and film offer. In it,…
Reading Across Borders: Dr Jini Kim Watson with Assoc Prof Debjani Ganguly
Lecture
Presented as part of the Readings Across Borders Seminar Series The Australian Government’s extreme and militarized response to asylum seekers since 2001 has been much criticized, primarily by legal scholars from the standpoint of international and human rights law. The goal of this paper, in…
Pluractionality in Spanish: the verbal periphrasis vivir + gerund
Lecture
Presented by SLLL Visitor Dr Patricia Amaral (Indiana University) This talk focuses on the properties of the verbal periphrasis vivir ('to live') + gerund, attested in several American varieties of Spanish (Central American, Colombian, and Rioplatense Spanish) but…
‘A secret house’: Waugh’s private library
Lecture
Presented as part of the SLLL Literary Studies Seminar Series One of the twentieth century’s most strident satirists, Evelyn Waugh (1903-1966) was also a determined book collector, amassing over 3,500 volumes in his ‘mania’ for collection. His collection reflects a lifelong bibliophilia which…
Global English, Minimal English: Towards better intercultural communication
Conference
Featuring an impressive range of speakers from multiple countries and disciplines, "Global English, Minimal English" aims to bring new energy and new ideas to interdisciplinary dialogue on two pressing issues: reducing the dangers of Anglocentrism and achieving better intercultural understanding in…
Fugitive Texts: Replication, Attribution, and Bibliography in the Digitized Archive
Lecture
Presented by Ryan Cordell as part of the Literary Studies Seminar Series. Beginning from the porous textual boundaries (of transmission, genre, and authorship) uncovered in nineteenth-century American newspapers by the Viral Texts project (http://viraltexts.org), this paper will consider the…
The Montage of McOndo
Lecture
Presented as part of the SLLL Literary Studies Seminar Series Alberto Fuguet and Sergio Gómez, the editors of McOndo (1996), a Pan-Hispanic short-story anthology, challenged Magic Realism’s largely illegitimate stronghold over the representation of Latin America and posited their own McOndo, the…